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In literature, frequent allusion is made to the legend, perhaps the best-known references being those in Milton's Paradise Lost ( Book xi.
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One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.
No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.
Bleak House in particular is credited with seeing the introduction of urban fog to the novel, which would become a frequent characteristic of urban Gothic literature and film ( Mighall 2007 ).
After a period of disuse, usage became more frequent in the twentieth century, in parallel with the rise of popular literature and pervasive media.
" And although he respected the work of Eliot, Williams became openly critical of Eliot's highly intellectual style with its frequent use of foreign languages and allusions to classical and European literature ..
The Falun Gong teachings use numerous untranslated Chinese religious and philosophical terms, and make frequent allusion to characters and incidents in Chinese folk literature and concepts drawn from Chinese popular religion, including such concepts as spirit possession.
Nineteenth century French literature abounds in scenes of provincial youth " coming up " to Paris to " make it " in the cultural, political or social scene of the capital ( this scheme is frequent in the novels of Balzac ).
Reluctantly, and with frequent endeavours to obtain some appointment, he gave himself up to literature as the only means left him to influence the destinies of his country.
However, as immigration increased the Jewish population to 50, 000 by 1848, negative stereotypes of Jews in newspapers, literature, drama, art, and popular culture grew more commonplace and physical attacks became more frequent.
* September 7-The Treaty of Den Haag is the catalyst for the War of the Spanish Succession, which would continue and have frequent discussion in literature until 1713.
By the 4th century BC, the philosopher Aristotle makes frequent reference to theory and literature concerning the relationship of appearance to character.
The rank of Marshal has made frequent appearances in works of science fiction, both in live action productions and literature.
But as a literary device, metafiction has become a frequent feature of postmodernist literature.
The reference of Phaistos to the ancient Greek literature is quite frequent.
They are written in a humorous, literary and sometimes farcical style and contain frequent references to English literature, poetry, and music.
Thus in the Anglo-Welsh Basin, there are frequent references to the Downtonian, Dittonian, Breconian and Farlovian stages in the literature.
Similarly, She marks one of the first fictional examples to raise the spectre of the natural decline of civilisation, and by extension, British imperial power, which would become an increasingly frequent theme in Gothic and invasion literature until the onset World War I.
While these conventions make explicit mentions of homosexuality rare in Chinese literature in comparison to the Greek or Japanese traditions, the allusions which do exist are given an exalted air by their frequent comparison to former Golden Ages and imperial favorites.
A frequent tag-line on SRL literature is " Producing the most dangerous shows on Earth.
In fact, sexual attraction was the most frequent response in a survey conducted among a group of 574 college and high school participants, where the participants were asked what they found most appealing about vampires and vampire literature.
Huangshan is a frequent subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography.
It was an American representative of the sub-genre known as invasion literature which originated in Britain and was frequent in the early Twentieth Century.
Apocalypticism is a frequent theme of literature, film and television.
The band also makes frequent references to political and historical figures, fantasy literature, and mythology.
literature and allusion
As a character and literary allusion he has appeared in, or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture, particularly in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass ( 1872 ).
* allusion: Indirect reference to another work of literature or art
It has been used in literature and popular culture as a metaphor and allusion.
The genre also influenced other forms of literature and theatre ; the portions of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick that are in dialogue form are at least a casual allusion to closet drama.
The band does not reference 19th-century literature in their lyrics to any real extent, despite the fact the band takes its name from the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and despite the allusion in the name of their 2004 album Far From the Madding Crowd to Thomas Hardy.
Thus, whenever one finds an allusion to Jonah in Medieval art or literature, it is usually an allegory for the burial and resurrection of Christ.
The game features multiple instances of allusion, a literary device which involves invoking similarities with other famous works of literature or the real world.
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion.
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But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.
A need so deeply planted, asking for direction, so to speak, is likely to be gratified by the vivid examples and heroic proportions of literature.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
A third idea is that artistic literature serves to reduce emotional conflicts, giving a sense of serenity and calm to individuals.
There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.
It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.
The study of ideas in literature is one of these.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
It is through such reflection that literature approaches philosophy.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.
When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.
In Krutch's view, this is one way to show how literature may be moral in effect without employing the explicit methods of a moralist.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
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